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L BINDER BOX Flled Dec 50 1921 Mar. 6, 1923.

Patented Mar. 6, 1923.

UNITE STATES .L LZ

OFFICE.

LOUIS BINDER, OI NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BOX.

Application filed December 30, 1921. Serial No. 525,942.

I and is particularly adapted for cigar boxes which are made of heavycardboard and which provide stability to the box to enable it towithstand the pressure of cigars being packed and pressed therein, andalso provides a box that will withstandany warping due to the moisturein a humidor and-the subse uent drying when the boxis remove there om.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichFigure- 1 is a perspective view of the box with the-lid open, the boxbeing illustrated without"ornamental covering and similarornamentationthat-is put on the finished box. Figure '2 is a detail sectional viewshowing the juncture of the bottom of the box and onelof. the wings thatform the side 'walls. thereof be: fore they are bent or folded, Figure'3 --is an enlargedsection taken-on line. 3-3jin Figure 1, and Figure 4is an enlarged sectionof plane indicated by the line 44 in Figure 1.-.

The body portion of the box 'is' made of heavy cardboard, and in whichthe bottom 10 is integral with the front wall 11 and the which I willcall side walls, and 1 rear wall 12, the end walls 13 and 14, these sidewalls and end walls being bent up after the'places that indicate theirjuncture have been slitted or cut, as at 15 in Figure 2, this cutextending up from the bottom and extending almost through the material,these folded walls then being subjected to vertical pressure so as toplace them down edgewise alongside of the bottom 10, as shownin Figure4. A bottom sheet 16 is'thenpasted over its entire surface tothebottom-face of the bottom 10 and the bottom edges of'the marginalwalls, thus resisting any tendency of the bottom 10 to spring out againfrom between the side walls.

. The material is cut so that" the grain of the fibre, indicated bysurface'shading in Figure 1, is longitudinal of the box, but thisdisposition of the fibre on the end walls 13 and '14 is vertical, sothat outward pressure.

on these walls, if they hold at the corners. splits or breaks the endwalls easily, but this is overcome by pasting a sheet of slightlythinner cardboard 17 on the outer face 0 each end wall and from the endwalls so as of the front wall 11 and the back wall 12, the fibre in thesheet 17 being at an angle, preferably a right angle, to the grain ordirection of the and 14.

I find that a box made in this way is Stato engage the ends v ble andless apt to break than the expensive old type of wooden box under thelateral pressure to which they are subjectedwhen- 70' cigars are presseddown in the box, as is now commonly done in packing cigars.

The projecting portions 18 of the sheet 17' it any inward movement ofthe end walls 13 and '14, since these sheets pasted tothe outer faces ofAn inner sheet 19 is usually front wall on its inner face, from the endsufliciently so that the ends of the end walls-abut against the sheet19, as will be seen from Figure-1; r

The lid 20 is-made of a central sheet'21f. which is of relatively heavymaterial, and flanking sheets 22 and 23 which are pasted to the, innerand outer sheet 21, the lidbeing attached tothe back wall 12 by anysuitable means, such as the strip of fabric 24. This formof lid'insuresa constant closure of the lidv on-the box all around, in contrast to thewarping 90 that takes place in a wooden lid or a sin le sheet ofcardboard forming a lid, especiaiy when. subjected to the alternatemoisture and drying when the box is in or has been removed from a'humidor,

climatic conditions.

remains level, and the lid remains closed I05 at all points around itsedges.

This form of lid also lends itself to holding a wooden. strip 25 thatisv inserted in extension of the main sheet 21 of the lidand held byhaving it project grain in the end walls 13 17 are securely '15 and isinset ends of the 8 faces of the central or under varying under moistureorheat, 1 0

readily the flanking sheets 22 which a'brad can be block 26 placed inthe edge of the front and 23, and through driveninto a wooden recess 27in the outer wall 11.

I claim:

a 1. A 'box comprising a body portion made of one piece of heavycardboard inwhich the side and end walls are bent up from the bottomportion, the front and back walls bearing on the-ends of the end walls,and

sheets secured to the end walls and projectin ltso engage the ends ofthe front and back wa 2. A box comprising a body portion made of onepiece of heavy cardboard in which the side and end walls are bent upfrom the bottom portion, the front and back walls bearing on the ends ofthe end walls, sheets secured to the end walls and projecting to engagethe ends of the front and back walls, and a sheet on the inside face ofthe front wall and with its ends engaging the inside faces of the endwalls.

3. A box comprising a body portion made of one piece of heavy cardboardin which the side and end walls are bent up from the bottom portion, thefront and back walls bearing on the ends of the end walls, sheets seemedto the end walls and projecting to engage the ends of the front and backwalls, a sheet on the inside face of the front wall and with its endsengaging the inside faces of the end walls, the bottom being forced inbetween all the walls, and a retaining sheet on the outside of thebottom and secured to the bottom edges of the side and end walls.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereto set my hand, this28th day of December, 1921.

LOUIS BINDER.

